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Literary Criticism

Eden Kathy

ISBN: PB: 9780226526645, ISBN: HB: 9780226184623, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
180 pp., 23x15 cm

In 1345, when Petrarch recovered a lost collection of letters from Cicero to his best friend Atticus, he discovered an intimate Cicero, a man very different from either the well-known orator of the Roman forum or the measured spokesman for the ancien...

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Cartography

Red Atlas How the Soviet Union Secretly Mapped the World

Davies John, Kent Alexander J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226389578, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
272 pp., 25x15 cm, 282 colour plates

Nearly thirty years after the end of the Cold War, its legacy and the accompanying Russian-American tension continues to loom large. Russia's access to detailed information on the United States and its allies may not seem so shocking in this day of d...

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Political Science

General

Revolutionizing Repertoires The Rise of Populist Mobilization in Peru

Jansen Robert S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226487441, ISBN: HB: 9780226487304, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones, 1 map, 2 line drawings, 4 tables

Politicians and political parties are for the most part limited by habit – they recycle tried-and-true strategies, draw on models from the past, and mimic others in the present. But in rare moments politicians break with routine and try something new...

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Education

Reference

Requirements for Certification of Teachers, Counselors, Librarians, Administrators for Elementary and Secondary Schools Eighty-Second Edition, 2017-2018

Frankhart Colleen

ISBN: HB: 9780226521770, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
304 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm

This annual volume offers the most complete and current listings of the requirements for certification of a wide range of educational professionals at the elementary and secondary levels".Requirements for Certification" is a valuable resource, making...

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Political Science

World

Revolutions and Counter-Revolutions 1917 and Its Aftermath from a Global Perspective

Rinke Stefan, Wildt Michael

ISBN: HB: 9783593507057, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, September 2017
400 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

Unquestionably a watershed year in world history, 1917 not only saw the Russian Revolution and the US entry into World War I, it also marked a foundational moment in determining global political structures for the remaining twentieth century. Yet whi...

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Anthropology

Reciprocity and Redistribution in Andean Civilizations The 1969 Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures

Murra John V.

ISBN: PB: 9780997367553, University of Chicago Press, HAU, September 2017
170 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 14 colour plates, 3 maps

John V. Murra's Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures, originally given in 1969, are the only major study of the Andean "avenue towards civilization". Collected and published for the first time here, they offer a powerful and insistent perspective on the Andea...

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Political Science

Rule Breaking and Political Imagination

Shepsle Kenneth A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226473215, ISBN: HB: 9780226473185, University of Chicago Press, September 2017
176 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 1 line drawing

"Imagination may be thought of as a 'work-around'. It is a resourceful tactic to 'undo' a rule by creating a path around it without necessarily defying it... Transgression, on the other hand, is rule breaking. There is no pretense of reinterpretation...

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Film Studies

Representing Talent Hollywood Agents and the Making of Movies

Roussel Violaine

ISBN: PB: 9780226486949, ISBN: HB: 9780226486802, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 line drawings, 1 table

Audiences love the glitz and glamour of Hollywood, but beyond the red carpet and behind the velvet curtain exists a legion of individuals who make showbiz work: agents. Whether literary, talent, or indie film, agents are behind the scenes brokering p...

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Literary Criticism

History

Refracted Muse Literature and Optics in Early Modern Spain

Santo-Tomas Enrique Garcia

ISBN: PB: 9780226465739, ISBN: HB: 9780226376462, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones

Galileo never set foot on the Iberian Peninsula, yet, as Enrique Garcia Santo-Tomas unfolds in "The Refracted Muse", the news of his work with telescopes brought him to surprising prominence – not just among Spaniards working in the developing scienc...

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Anthropology

Philosophy

Returns of Fetishism Charles de Brosses and the Afterlives of an Idea

de Brosses Charles, Morris Rosalind C., Leonard Daniel H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226464756, ISBN: HB: 9780226464619, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
480 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

For more than 250 years, Charles de Brosses's term "fetishism" has exerted great influence over our most ambitious thinkers. Used as an alternative to "magic" but nonetheless expressing the material force of magical thought, de Brosses's term has pro...

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